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Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence

Dear Sister shares the lessons, memories, and vision of over
fifty artists, activists, mothers, writers, and students who share
their stories of survival or what it means to be an advocate and ally to
survivors. Written in an epistolary format, this multi-generational,
multi-ethnic collection of letters and essays is a moving journey into
the hearts and minds of the survivors of rape, incest, and other forms
of sexual violence, written directly to and for other survivors.

Dear Sister goes far beyond traditional books about healing
that use "experts" to explain the experience of survivors to the rest of
the world. Here, we learn what the world looks like through the eyes of
a survivor. From a professor in the Midwest to a poet in Belgium, an
escapee from a child prostitution ring, an advocate in the Congo, and a
sex worker in San Francisco, Dear Sister touches on issues of feminism, love, disability, gender, justice, identity, and spirituality.